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Five fruit flies pinned to electric pins. A sixth fly, wired into a reward-punishment loop, decides which two get current, gets dopamine when one maxes out, and burns when the others go cold. Six copies of the MaleCNS connectome, 166,700 neurons each, bit-identical until something is done to them. [Look at the bottom of the README]
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GITHUB · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 26 upvotes (top 31%) · 1 view
Niche: scientific and system simulation software · 74 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- connectome
- fly-brain
- fruit-fly
- fruit-fly-brain
- malecns
- threejs
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Could you build this?
No Simulating full biophysical neural dynamics of multiple 166,700-neuron connectomes (MaleCNS) with reinforcement learning loops requires massive computational neuroscience and specialized high-performance simulation infrastructure.
What it would actually take: This project requires biophysical neural network simulation software (such as NEURON, Brian2, or custom CUDA/Metal neural network kernels) handling hundreds of thousands of biologically accurate Hodgkin-Huxley or leaky integrate-and-fire neurons. The hard parts include ingesting connectome synaptic weight graphs from electron microscopy datasets (FlyWire/Hemibrain), real-time synaptic plasticity modeling, and distributed GPU execution to achieve acceptable simulation time-steps.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 71 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 72 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
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